Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1915 — “LEMONS COME HIGH” [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

“LEMONS COME HIGH”

Willie Doak of St. Louis, Bears Out Baseball Adage. Cardinal pitcher Is as Valuable a Mound Man as There Is in National League—Fine Start to Better 1914 Record. Willie Doak of the Cardinals is one of many athletes who bear out the truth of that baseball adage, “Lemons come high.” Not that Willie is a lemon. On the contrary, he went to the front rank of National league pitchers in the short space of one season, but the interesting part of it is that all he cost the SL Louis club was .the effort to sign him. Right today Doak is as valuable a mound man as there is in the National league. That he can pitch is known to every man in the circuit. He has no favorites, and whenever he suffers a trimming the opposing pitcher or pitchers and the rest of the team deserve all they get They have to work for it. Doak is a “spitball” pitcher with an assortment of other stuff. Control, coupled with the salivated slant, is his most valuable asset, but the question is whether or not he will last as long as the lads who stick to curves and speed. Ed Walsh of the Sox, and pos* Bibly Larry Cheney of the Cubs stand as regrettable examples of what the “spitter" will do to an arm of iron. Doak came to the Cardinals for car fare after the Interstate league blew up in 1913. He fiddled around in the fall in a few games and clearly demonstrated he was a lad of marked ability. The next spring he blossomed forth over one team after another,